Det Norske Veritas (DNV) vs JC?

[bewitched]

It's been about two years since I posted on AllNurses--now I'm back with some real nursing experience under my belt I hope to be a helpful contributor as opposed to the nursing student asking questions all the time! (SMH at some of my old posts, haha.)

I've just been hired on at a hospital that is Det Norske Veritas (DNV) accredited as opposed to the Joint Commission. I was never aware there were any other accrediting bodies, so I'm very curious to hear from anybody who has worked for a DNV-accredited organization as opposed to JC.

I think we are all familiar with how a JC visit goes--all of a sudden the managers are rushing around to make sure the most trivial of things are up to snuff, and you've got to know the most obscure policies "just in case" you're asked--and the charade of perfect 100% adherence to regulations is kept up for as long as inspection and reinspection takes, then when it's all over everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief and resumes their usual method of doing things. It's not the big things that I take issue with--patient safety goals and all that are great, I have no problem with regulations and policies that are common sense and patient-based. It's all the little nitpicky things that drive me up a wall.

From the explanations given in orientation at my new hospital (well, really, my new primary hospital, I'm still working at my previous JC hospital, too), it sounds like DNV is less concerned about the details of how things are done and leaves things more to the individual facility to dictate, so long as the end results are the same and everything is done safely and with good practice. Does that actually reflect the nature of DNV as an accrediting organization? My new place says that with the DNV accreditation they were able to take ~1500 policies and streamline them into ~600, making things much easier and less conflicting information, etc.